(Press release): Enjoying The Ride Limited Edition 60-CD Boxed Set Celebrates The Grateful Dead’s 60th Anniversary With Unreleased Performances From 20 Legendary Venues Available Exclusively From Dead.net On May 30. The Music Never Stopped Available From Rhino On 3-CDs And 6-LPs Pre-order Here“Scarlet Begonias,” “Touch Of Grey,” and “Fire On The Mountain” Live At The Greek Theatre Available Today DigitallyListen Now(March 12, 2025 - Los Angeles, CA) The Grateful Dead... Read More

A New York Times online story published today written by Ben Sisario headlined "The Wizard of Vinyl Is In Kansas" presents to the general public the Chad kassem most Tracking Angle readers know if just through buying the records, CDs, SACDs and tapes he produces, presses and sells on the Acoustic Sounds website, though some have met Chad at hi-fi shows or at one of his Blues at the Crossroads concert extravaganzas.Pictured in the photo are (L-R): Chad... Read More

High Moon Records is a well-regarded boutique reissue record label with a catalog comprised of essential releases from music visionaries, some of whom perhaps you've probably never heard of. All feature deluxe packaging, extensive liner notes by authoritative writers, stunning artwork with never-before-seen archival photos, and sparkling re-mastered audio often with rare bonus tracks.

Musicologist, conductor and Paris National Conservatory alumnus Jean-Marc Harari's The French Recording Company (Les Discophiles Francais) issued a previously unreleased Marcelle Meyer Debussy recording back in 2019 that I reported on and reviewed on my previous website. The review caused a stir because the double LP all-analog set, limited to 200 copies was costly, though less expensive than originals of other Meyer records and buyers at the time expressed no... Read More

The Electric Recording Company just announced it will deliver in April 450 copies of The Grateful Dead's triple LP Europe '72 as a limited to 450 copy release.Not everyone loves what ERC does with rock recordings, which is give buyers a "straight off the tape" document with no equalization or compression applied, but enough do so these sell out quickly. That's why we're putting this up post haste! Cost: £650From the ERC website blurb: ... Read More

(Press release) Blue Note Records has announced an April 11 release of On View At The Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters, a special Tone Poet Vinyl Edition of guitarist Kenny Burrell’s sublime 1959 hard bop summit with drummer Art Blakey. The expanded 3-LP, 2-CD, and digital sets, which can be pre-ordered now on the Blue Note Store, present the complete recorded performances for the first time in any format including six previously unissued tracks. Listen to “The... Read More

Reliable Corporation's UberLight® Flex became a big hit in the audiophile world a few years ago. It's among the best ways to illuminate a turntable or any piece of audio gear. They are ubiquitous at audio shows worldwide. Reliable just introduced the new Frame UberLight® that's a radical departure and a major esthetic and functional upgrade from the Flex. The sophisticated looking Frame offers more than 100 lighting combinations with six brightness... Read More

Mack Avenue Music Group announced last month its partnership with Strata-East Records, the influential jazz label known for artistic freedom and high production standards founded in 1970 by Charles Tolliver and Stanley Cowell. The series will be released over time on AAA vinyl cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio, pressed on 180g RTI vinyl and deluxe laminated gatefold packaged— paper on cardboard— by Dorado. Strata-East: The Legacy Begins—a digital-only anthology... Read More

PRESS RELEASE: (January 10, 2025 - Los Angeles, CA) Rhino High Fidelity (Rhino Hi-Fi) cranks up the volume again on its series of acclaimed limited-edition, high-end vinyl reissues by revitalizing and re-energizing two more rock classics! New Rhino Hi-Fi versions of Television’s pivotal sophomore LP Adventure and Faces’ fourth full-length album, Ooh La La, will be available today, exclusively at Rhino.com and internationally at select WMG stores. Each release is... Read More

Press release: [Jan. 6, 2025] — Acoustic Sounds announces their latest high quality reissue, Steely Dan’s groundbreaking fourth studio album, Katy Lied. This gold-selling classic, originally released in 1975, has been meticulously remastered for an Ultra High Quality Record (UHQR) reissue, the pinnacle of vinyl craftsmanship. Available on January 31st, 2025, and available for pre-order HERE, the release is the latest installment of Acoustic Sounds' ongoing series, which has featured releases from Steely Dan’s Can’t Buy a Thrill, Countdown to Ecstasy, Pretzel Logic, The Royal Scam, Aja and Gaucho since September 2022. “This could be the best vinyl record I’ve ever heard,” said Bob Lefsetz, on Acoustic Sounds’ UHQR edition of Can’t Buy a Thrill. “This is rarefied air. Not only is this a classic album that has stood the test of time, this is not the vinyl you see in your clothing store, not even in your record store.

(December 10, 2024 - Los Angeles, CA) Rhino Entertainment is proud to announce the launch of a new audiophile vinyl series, Rhino Reserves, offering legendary albums on 180-gram premium-quality black vinyl. Ensuring the highest audio quality, Rhino Reserve will be pressed locally at Fidelity Record Pressing’s brand-new plant in Oxnard, CA, and cut by renowned mastering engineer Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab. For these inaugural releases, however, the lacquers... Read More

This past Wednesday (December, 4) at Tribeca listening bar All Blues, Analogue Productions’ Chad Kassem, reissue supervisor Steve Berkowitz, and jazz scholar Ashley Kahn presented Birth Of The Blue, the new compilation of the Miles Davis Sextet’s May 26, 1958 session. Recorded almost a year before Kind Of Blue and featuring the same lineup—Miles, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb—this set of four songs has never seen its... Read More

A relatively lackluster set of RSD Black Friday offerings had me staying home. There were a few interesting items but nothing that had me running to the store, especially pre-dawn to wait on line. Your reaction may have differed and for all I know you are reading this standing on line at your favorite record store. These three were sent my way, so of course I listened.Resonance HLP-9074The Sun Ra Arkestra played Warsaw while I was there covering last October's... Read More

Blue Note Records has released Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs’, a never-before-issued live recording of jazz legends McCoy Tyner and Joe Henderson leading a stellar quartet with bassist Henry Grimes and drummer Jack DeJohnette at the hallowed lost NYC jazz shrine, Slugs' Saloon, in 1966. The release was produced by Zev Feldman with Jack and Lydia DeJohnette, and is available now on 2-LP, 2-CD, and digital formats. Tyner and Henderson had been forging a strong... Read More

The box set arrived about an hour ago and I got right on it and shot this box opening video. Honestly, more interesting is the second embedded video with Kevin Reeves and Pat Kraus showing the tapes and the cutting process along with some of the ideas that went into the new cuts. The tape box notes show that bass was seriously cut for the original records as was some top end splashy cymbal stuff.What wasn't clear from the video is what they did for these new... Read More

November 13, 2024—Boston-based Andover Audio is proud to announce the launch of the SpinBase 2, the next evolution of its award-winning turntable-speaker system (the turntable is not included). Maintaining the clean, classic design of the original SpinBase, the new model dials up the aesthetic with heathered fabric wrap and Andover’s iconic main control knob. This compact and clever design blends convenience with high-quality sound and ease of setup and use,... Read More